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Max ease. Full speed.\nWhether people and businesses are sending money to another country, spending abroad, or making and receiving international payments, Wise is on a mission to make their lives easier and save them money.\nAs part of our team, you will be helping us create an entirely new network for the world's money.\nFor everyone, everywhere.\nMore about our mission and what we offer.\n Wise is one the fastest growing companies in Europe and we’re on a mission: to make money without borders the new normal. We’ve got over 19 million customers across the globe and we’re growing. Fast.\nCurrent banking systems don’t let us send, spend or receive money across borders easily. Or quickly. Or cheaply.\nSo, we’re building a new one.\nAnd, we need a Security Engineer to join our mission and help us build a global platform that’s scalable, reliable and secure. We’re working on lots of exciting challenges, and you’ll dive right into projects helping consumers and businesses receive and send money from anywhere in the world.\nYou will be responsible for building security focused technical solutions with high regards to code quality, architecture applicability, performance, reliability and adherence to company-wide engineering standards. You will be responsible for monitoring, detecting, responding to, and managing security incidents, ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of our organization's information systems.\nHow we work\nWe work in an agile fashion, with engineers closely collaborating with other platform teams. Team operates from Tallinn, London and Austin offices.\nWhat will you be working on?\nYou will be part of an autonomous team, driving the technical solutions for detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response and threat intelligence. You will help us scale-up and build a world class SOC.\n About you:\nJoin an innovative team driving cutting-edge solutions in detection engineering, threat hunting, incident response, and threat intelligence to build a world-class SOC.\nDive into large-scale distributed systems and bring your expertise in Windows, MacOS, or Linux to the forefront.\nLeverage your skills withElastic, EDR, SIEM, WAF, and cloud infrastructure to tackle exciting challenges and own your projects.\nFuel your passion for learning by investigating problems to their root cause and enjoy the thrill of threat hunting and data exploration.\nCollaborate with a dynamic team, bringing people together to solve complex problems and drive impactful solutions.\nThrive in an environment of open feedback and continuous improvement.\nBe ready to jump into on-call rotations, ensuring our systems are secure and resilient around the clock.\nNice to have:\nExperience with Python, Go, asynchronous message queues, and microservices architecture.\nSkills in designing, deploying, and maintaining clean RESTful APIs.\nKnowledge of regulatory compliance standards (e.g., GDPR, PCI-DSS).\n What We Offer:\nUnfortunately, we are unable to sponsor OR transfer Visa's for this position (H1b, TN, EAD, OPT etc.)\nBase salary starting at $180,000 annually\nRSU's in a rapidly growing company + 401k with up to a 4% match\n\nMedical, dental, & vision insurance - including Life Insurance, Short & Long-Term Disability, and an EAP program\n\nFlexible working model - a mix of working from home and from the office\n\n25 days PTO, 15 sick days, 11 holidays, 5 compassionate leave days, 3 paid “Me” days and a paid volunteer day, annually\n\nClickHERE for more info on our benefits!\nFor everyone, everywhere. We're people building money without borders - without judgement or prejudice, too. We believe teams are strongest when they are diverse, equitable and inclusive.\nWe're proud to have a truly international team, and we celebrate our differences.\nInclusive teams help us live our values and make sure every Wiser feels respected, empowered to contribute towards our mission and able to progress in their careers.\nIf you want to find out more about what it's like to work at Wise visit Wise.Jobs.\nKeep up to date with life at Wise by following us on LinkedIn and Instagram.","description_format":"text","description_chars":4193,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":null,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":null,"security_clearance":false,"languages":[{"language":"English","level":"All levels","optional":false}]},"benefits":["401k plan","Flexible schedule","Life insurance","Vision insurance"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Financial Services","Money Transfer & Remittances","Currency Exchange & FX Payments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-29T18:04:13Z"}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":1,"expected_fill_days":22,"reasons":["conf:4","stale_co","velocity","win:early","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":200000,"is_top_pay":true},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-security-engineer-2","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/wise-senior-security-engineer-2.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-01T09:53:29Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":726,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4274,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-02T00:00:00Z"}}}